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...schedules for the monthlies had forced year-end issues to be made up too far in advance; the festive mood may have been unattainable in plans made in July. To be sure, many magazines carried the familiar religious pictures and sentimental sermons. Yet McCall's resident psychiatrist, Theodore Isaac Rubin, offered morose counsel: "There are those who feel they should have such enormous enjoyment during a holiday that they become depressed anticipating their inevitable disappointment. Yes, having to enjoy themselves can be burden enough to kill the enjoyment." And Seventeen's psychiatrist, Robert Nixon, warned his adolescent readers...
...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A galaxy of stars twinkling in tribute to Impresario Sol Hurok. Representing only a few of the hundreds he has sponsored during the past 55 years are Marian Anderson, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, Andres Segovia, the Bolshoi Ballet with Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and Antonio and the Ballets de Madrid...
...soggy pancakes if Chef Henri Charpentier's sauce had not caught fire. The X ray, vulcanized rubber, LSD-even America, for that matter-were all discovered by accident, and people might still be wondering why their feet are attached to the ground if an apple had not conked Isaac Newton on the head...
Survival of the Fittest. Financed by a grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, Plant Pathologist Isaac Wahl began his search for resistant oats in Israel-on the theory that the varieties of wild oats growing there must have built up some sort of immunity. "In the process of evolution over millions of years," he explains, "the survival of the fittest applies to cereal grains...
...anybody else who happens to be onstage. During a Cleveland Orchestra concert six months ago, the E string on Soloist Isaac Stern's violin suddenly snapped in the final movement of a Brahms concerto. Concertmaster Druian quickly gave Stern his Stradivarius, passed the disabled instrument to Assistant Concertmaster Daniel Majeske and continued playing on Majeske's violin. Majeske replaced the string and-switch, switch-Stern finished with a flourish on his fiddle, having missed only one measure of music. Says Druian, with the understatement typical of the supercool concertmaster: "It's all part...